paradises

Noun

paradise (countable and uncountable, plural paradises)

1. The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
   • Living in paradise comes with a price.

   Synonyms:

   Heaven

2. (figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
   • Near-synonym: rose garden

   Synonyms:

   earthly paradise, heaven, rose garden

3. (figuratively) An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.
   • a shoppers’ paradise
4. (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.
   • The weariest and most loathed worldly life
     That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
     Can lay on nature is a paradise
     To what we fear of death.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (obsolete) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
6. (obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.

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